The use of intellectual property rights-related data has now gotten easier. Domestic and international intellectual property rights, including patents and designs, has now become more accessible to the public.
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced strategies to provide intellectual property rights (IPRs) data to the public, on December 30, 2014. The strategies are: to expand the collection and availability of such data in Korea and overseas; to provide high-quality, flawless data; to improve accessibility to IPRs data; and, to streamline KIPO services that overlap with those provided by the private sector.
First of all, the KIPO intends to drastically increase the number of countries from which it receives IPR-related data. It plans to obtain high-value, semi-processed data, for which the private sector has high demand, from overseas intellectual property offices and provide them to the public.
The KIPO currently collects such data from 46 nations and it intends to increase the number of targeted countries to 66 by 2017. Now, only seven nations, including the United States, Japan and China, agreed to offer such data to the public, but the KIPO hopes to increase the number of such countries to 30 by 2017. The purpose of increasing the number of the targeted nations for data collection is attributed to the growing importance of securing patents due to rising occurrences of patent disputes across the world.
The KIPO intends to improve the quality of data, from the current 99.6 percent to 99.8 percent, by 2017 in order to offer high-quality, flawless data. It will also turn all past public relations data that exist in the form of images to text by 2017 as part of its plans to supplement omitted data and to correct errors.
Accessibility to IPR data will also be increased. The KIPO plans to adopt the Linked Open Data (LOD) method, a new technology that allows users to download IPR data online or interactively connect with each other. It will also lower fees for receiving the data. Currently, the data can be downloaded from the Kipris site (http://plus.kipris.or.kr), but users need to have programming-related knowledge and pay a high price for the data, making it difficult for the public to access the system.
"We will carry out effective open-data policies so that the general public can have access to high-quality data at a reasonable price," said a KIPO official.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photo courtesy of the KIPO
jun2@korea.kr
The Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced strategies to provide intellectual property rights (IPRs) data to the public, on December 30, 2014. The strategies are: to expand the collection and availability of such data in Korea and overseas; to provide high-quality, flawless data; to improve accessibility to IPRs data; and, to streamline KIPO services that overlap with those provided by the private sector.
Lee Joon-seok, deputy commissioner of the KIPO, announces strategies to provide intellectual property rights data, on December 30, 2014.
First of all, the KIPO intends to drastically increase the number of countries from which it receives IPR-related data. It plans to obtain high-value, semi-processed data, for which the private sector has high demand, from overseas intellectual property offices and provide them to the public.
The KIPO currently collects such data from 46 nations and it intends to increase the number of targeted countries to 66 by 2017. Now, only seven nations, including the United States, Japan and China, agreed to offer such data to the public, but the KIPO hopes to increase the number of such countries to 30 by 2017. The purpose of increasing the number of the targeted nations for data collection is attributed to the growing importance of securing patents due to rising occurrences of patent disputes across the world.
The KIPO intends to improve the quality of data, from the current 99.6 percent to 99.8 percent, by 2017 in order to offer high-quality, flawless data. It will also turn all past public relations data that exist in the form of images to text by 2017 as part of its plans to supplement omitted data and to correct errors.
Accessibility to IPR data will also be increased. The KIPO plans to adopt the Linked Open Data (LOD) method, a new technology that allows users to download IPR data online or interactively connect with each other. It will also lower fees for receiving the data. Currently, the data can be downloaded from the Kipris site (http://plus.kipris.or.kr), but users need to have programming-related knowledge and pay a high price for the data, making it difficult for the public to access the system.
"We will carry out effective open-data policies so that the general public can have access to high-quality data at a reasonable price," said a KIPO official.
By Limb Jae-un
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photo courtesy of the KIPO
jun2@korea.kr
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